100 MYRSINEZ. [ Mesa. 
racemes in the axils of the leaves and usually longer than them, 
arranged at the end of the branchlets into elongate slender panicles ; 
bracts and bractlets linear-subulate, shorter than the pedicels ; calyx 
nearly a line long, glabrous, the lobes ovate, blunt ; corolla bell- 
shaped, somewhat longer than the calyx-lobes, the lobes blunt; 
ovary half-inferior ; berries said to be ovoid, hardly a line long. 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl, Dec. 
ubescent or otherwise haa 
5. M. mollissima, Wall—An evergreen slender-branched or 
almost simple shrub, 4-6 ft. high, all softer parts softly pubescent 
from rusty-coloured (in a fresh state whitish) short hairs; leaves 
lanceolate and elliptically-lanceolate to broadly oblong, on a densely 
rusty-pubescent petiole 4-1 in. long, 6-8 in. long, shortly but finely 
acuminate, sinuate-toothed, thick membranous, above sparingly and 
* * Inflorescence, and usually also the softer parts and leaves, 
Pp eA 
rotundate, 4 of them spreading, the upper one bent inwards; ovary 
almost inferior, the style short and thickened with an indistinctly 
lobed stigma. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests along th tern sl £ the 
Pegu Yomah and of Martaban.—Fl. Mabeh-Aps-ou-c he celal SiS. : 
6. M. m , Kz.—An evergreen shrub, the branches terete, 
smooth and glossy ; leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, acute or acu- 
minate at the base, on a strong, sparingly puberulous petiole 4 to 1 
in. long, 5-7 in. long, shortly acuminate, coarsely sinuate-toothed, 
thin-pergamaceous, glabrous, the midrib sparingly and minutely 
pubescent, the nerves excurrent into callose blunt teeth; flowers 
minute, on very short pubescent pedicels, in short racemes forming 
branched, mossy, densely and shortly rusty-hairy panicles in the 
axils of the leaves and 2 to 3 times as long as the petiole; bracts 
longer than the pedicels, about a line long, shortly rusty-hirsute, 
inear, acuminate ; calyx rusty-hirsute, nearly a line long, the lobes 
ovate-lanceolate, acute; corolla tubular-bell-shaped, glabrous, twice 
as long as the calyx, the lobes short and rotundate; ovary almost 
inferior, style not exceeding the calyx-lobes. : 
Has.—Burma; no locality. 
